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“In A Virtuous Education, Kashatus challenges us to reincorporate moral and religious beliefs into educational debates. He provides us with a well researched and written historical narrative of how one American city, during a period of rapid and dramatic economic and social change, religious, moral, and civic considerations constructively intertwined and contributed to the common good.”

— History of Education Quarterly

“Kashatus’ exhaustive research, leading to a clear articulation of Philadelphia’s social history, provides a view of Quaker concern for education that is both a sobering challenge and an inspiring vision.”

— Quaker History

“Kashatus has written a history with unmistakable implications for a city and a time that disdain public spending on schools, scorn generous impulses toward children, and impede all creative efforts at reform.  It is a disconcerting history, reminding us that we have always failed our children.  It is, at the same time, a heartening history, restoring the creativity and commitment that people of good will summoned in an earlier time of crisis and suggesting the specific ways in which they went about their work.  We always need such histories.  We have rarely needed them more than we do now.”

— Michael W. Zuckerman
University of Pennsylvania

“Kashatus has meticulously documented Quaker influence on public education in Philadelphia.”

— Friends Journal